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8 of the Greatest Novels Set on a School Campus

From Stonerby John Williams (1965) to The Secret History byDonna Tartt (1992), the school campus has long been a home for great fiction. The lawns and libraries, classrooms and common rooms, and dining halls where everyone has a familiar seat. 

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Podcasts

How is the sector responding to ELT school closures and what happens next?

In one week in September, two major English language schools closed abruptly. EC English Language Centres ceased trading on 14 September, affecting roughly 1,500 students in 24 schools across seven destinations. A few days later, on 18 September, ILAC filed for bankruptcy disrupting the studies of nearly 1,400 students in Toronto and Vancouver.

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Books

‘See One, Do One, Teach One’ is Grace Farris’s graphic memoir of med school: NPR

For most people, knowledge of what life is like on the job for healthcare workers comes primarily from two limited vantage points: watching television shows and experiencing their own patient care. The same is true for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Faris reminds us in her sensitive, energetic graphic memoir,

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Books

Public library and school Internet access at risk

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) remains an independent agency of the government with oversight by Congress, as has been the case in the Trump-Vance administration, the agency’s role in federal operations has shifted to following the administration’s will and agenda. Current FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was appointed by Trump during his first administration and

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Cars

Your kids’ school bus is about to become a roving surveillance vehicle

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter delivers the stories that really matter straight to you every weekday. Just last week, we published a story about how the companies that maintain automated license plate readers — and profit from selling the data they collect — are looking to track electronic

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Cars

Why do school zone signs use that distinctive loud, bright, fluorescent yellow-green color

Erman Gans/Getty Images You are the driver. This means that you subscribe to the rules and regulations of the road – and are expected to follow them. That is, unless you want to risk paying fees, losing your license, and going to jail. But you know the

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